Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Courtesy of OSU Athletics Joey Wilson is a 22-year-old freshman at OSU.
Wilson treats OSU hockey goaltending as an artwork Noah Weber Staff Reporter
were going to a Tulsa Oilers game, and I saw a goalie fight for the first time in person,” Wilson said. “That had me hooked.” Joey Wilson describes playing Wilson signed up for his first goalie as an art. year of hockey when he was four years “The best way I can put it is that old. He played skater for two months it’s like a painter putting a paintbrush but switched positions quickly afterto a canvas,” Wilson said. “Everything wards. has to be smooth. It’s an artform.” “Playing skater wasn’t for me,” Wilson, a 22-year-old freshman Wilson said. “When I first wanted to goalie for the Oklahoma State hockey play hockey, I wanted to be a goalie. I team, fell in love with hockey one was the only goalie in mites.” night out with his family. Wilson has played goalie from “At the age of three or four we that point on. He played organized
hockey all throughout his childhood and was drafted into the NA3HL, a junior hockey league, when he was 15 years old. After bouncing around multiple different hockey leagues and living in multiple different states to play hockey, Wilson decided to hang up the skates. But he couldn’t escape the love of the art of playing goalie. One day Wilson was added into a GroupMe group chat by his friend Taylor Woodrum. Woodrum was a defenseman for OSU last season and knew that the Cowboys needed a goalie, so he
reached out to Wilson. His short year of not playing hockey was over. Wilson joined the team this season and is the only active goalie on the OSU roster. But he isn’t like most goalies. Wilson said most goalies have complex pregame routines and rituals, but he keeps his routine simple and relaxed. He gets to the rink about two and a half hours early, blares 21 Savage in his Apple AirPods and retapes both of his goalie sticks in the stands. See Goaltending on 2
OSU honors alumniowned businesses boy100 highlights the contribution of entrepreneurial graduates from across the university and the positive inJaycee Hampton fluence on OSU and the community. Last Staff Reporter year, 76 businesses were honored, this year growing to 95. Cowboys Three hundred and learn, grow and forty seven people celebrate together. On March 31, attended and broke last year’s attenOklahoma State University honored dance record. The Riata 95 alumni and their Center for Innovabusinesses. tion and EntrepreThe univerneurship hosted the sity recognized the fastest growing event in alliance Cowboy-owned and with the OSU Foundation at the Wes led businesses and Watkins Center. their impressive entrepreneurship at The gala helps raise funds for the student the second annual Cowboy100 Honoree programs and activities at the Riata Gala. Center, allowing for The Cow-
OSU to serve students in an engaging way with industry leaders and expand their entrepreneurship career throughout the university. The Riata Center is the entrepreneurial catalyst for OSU students, faculty and alumni. Offering handson experimental programs and various resources to help inspire future generations in the workplace. Industry experts, staff and faculty who are successful entrepreneurs lead the center and OSU students have a chance to grow professionally in positive ways. See Buisnesses on 5
File Photo Jacob Thompson founded and serves as the captain for the OSU hockey team.
‘We do everything together’
How an unlikely friendship blossomed from OSU hockey Noah Weber Staff Reporter
The drive back from Shreveport, Louisiana, after a series vs East Texas Baptist series changed that. Clevenger made his way to the back of Coulter Clevenger and Read combined the bus and the friendship between the two for 56 points on the OSU hockey team this immediately sparked. season, but their chemistry, success and “Cory had taken a BeReal of me and friendship wasn’t immediate. that whole bus ride was my first time getting They already knew of each other from to talk to him,” Clevenger said. “I really got playing on the same team, but they weren’t to know him then and that was the first time close friends yet. that we really clicked as friends.” See Friendship on 4